along with spring leaves
my child’s teeth
are coming in
Kusatao Nakamura
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Don’t think of I
Think of you
And how I might help
More so than coincidence
Timing is everything
And thus the loan is approved
The circle
Is always open
But never is it broken
haiku mind
108 poems to
cultivate awareness
& open your heart
is by Patricia Donegan
calmly
he gazes at the mountain—
the frog
Issa Kobayashi
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My ease is elsewhere
In my truth
I cannot deny
My staff is humanity
In my hopes
I cannot lie
My life is with your life
Our purpose is
To continue to try
haiku mind
108 poems to
cultivate awareness
& open your heart
is by Patricia Donegan
summer’s morning:
a child of the poor
drags a head of cabbage
Ippekiro Nakatsuka
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Take in
Give out
Breath after breath after breath
Clear
Clear and open
Or as open as is possible
With the blossom
Less of a food
Than well-fried cabbage
With potatoes and butter
From a child of the poor
To a teenager of the sixties
And now, sixty plus a few years
In the twenty-first century
haiku mind
108 poems to
cultivate awareness
& open your heart
is by Patricia Donegan
summer grasses—
the wheels of a locomotive
come up to a stop
Seishi Yamaguchi
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I weed the old gravel
I weed between the new paving stones
I weed, and I know that I will have to weed again
Yet the memory may be the first memory
It is of being with Grandad
On the clay works steam-powered shunting engine
We ride together, from the arched bridge
By our row of terraced cottages
To the buffers, of Hepworth Iron Company Ltd
haiku mind
108 poems to
cultivate awareness
& open your heart
is by Patricia Donegan
he says a word
I say a word:
autumn deepens
Kyoshi Takahama
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I grow
Am growing older
Than the seasons
Which do deepen
I choose words
More quickly
As if fearful
No, no I won’t say it
For still I do believe
That some summers
Are yet before me
haiku mind
108 poems to
cultivate awareness
& open your heart
is by Patricia Donegan